Newmai News Network Aizawl | December 12 Traffic rules would be enforced in stricter form in the capital as well as in all district headquarters before and during Christmas and New Year celebrations as part of measures to ensure road safety, C. Lalthanmawia, Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Aizawl district said today. Following the decision made by Coordination Committee on Traffic Management, ‘No tolerance drive’ was launched today in Aizawl with Traffic SP C. Lalthanmawia inaugurating the drive during a function held at Bara Bazar in Dawrpui, Aizawl. During the no tolerance drive, traffic police would conduct mass checking on violation of traffic rules especially drunken driving, smoking and using mobile while driving and incomplete documents. Stringent penalty would be imposed and fine would be charged on violators and drunken driving would be punished with suspension of driving license for three months apart from imposing fine, Lalthanmawia informed media today. He said that No Tolerance Drive would be launched randomly without making specific checking zone and it would be done through surprise checking so that traffic rules violators are brought to justice. Unlike previous year, this time traffic department will not issue check slip to vehicles that have been already checked as there were reports of forging fake slip in the past year which were passed on from one to another, he said. Lalthanmawia said that no tolerance drive is a measure to ensure road safety and to avert road accidents mostly caused by unscrupulous driving. It also aims at bringing safety to the public during the festive season, he added. On the first day of no tolerance drive, 98 vehicles including 82 two wheelers and 16 LMV were apprehended for failing to produce insurance letter, wrong number plate and not fitting silencer.
